Hymn O Little Town of Bethlehem #64
Scripture Lessons: Micah 5:2-5a
Psalm 80:1-7 p.794VU pt 1
Luke 1:39-47
Carol Gentle Mary Laid Her Child #46VU
Message
Prayer : Come, God-with-us: who braves our rejection and hurt, who holds us in acceptance and love.
Come, God-for-us: who whispers in our ears that we- each of us- are beloved children.
Come, God-under-us: who cradles us in arms that never grow weary; whose lap has room enough for all.
Come, God-over-us: who watches in the long silence of the night, that we might rest in peace.
Come, God-beside-us: who steadies us when we falter, who lifts us up when we fall.
Come, God-beside-us: who picks up all the faded dreams we drop along the way and patchworks them into hope.
O Come, O Come, Immanuel: and we will rejoice for ever! ( a prayer written by Thom M. Shaman printed in the Iona Community’s Candles and Conifers.)
Carol Angels We Have Heard on High #38VU
This week there will be a morning service in Ormstown at 9:30 am on Sunday, December 22nd. There will be a Family Christmas Candlelight service in Howick at 7pm, which will include Communion. There will be no Christmas Eve service in Howick, but there will be one in Ormstown, at St Paul’s at 7:30pm.
There will also be a combined Christmas Sunday service at 11am in Howick on Sunday, December 29th, with coffee and cookies etc. beginning at 10:30 am. All are welcome to come and sing carols and celebrate Jesus’s birth once again.
Please note that Wilene has let us know that the financial books for the church will be closing at noon on Monday, December 30th, so if you wish to make a donation, please get it in by then. (Also, if you wish to receive envelopes, please let her know that.)
Grace Brown has also let us know that the books for the Memorial Fund will close on Friday, December 27th, so if you wish to make a memorial gift for this year, please get it to her by that date.
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